Season 4: Episode 6: Stella Rush ("Sten Russell")
Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive - December 13, 2018
- 21:11
“I’m a bisexual ki-ki s.o.b butch-femme.” Stella Rush railed against rules and binaries: butch/femme, gay/straight. Fighting for social survival, and wielding a pen, Stella (aka Sten Russell) carved out a place for herself on ONE magazine’s mostly-male 1950s masthead and on the pages of The Ladder.Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources.
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November 29, 2018
- 31:13
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December 27, 2018
- 28:22
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